Visual Studio 2010 Professional Beta 1 – Web Installer

Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 and the .NET Framework 4 are the next generation of Microsoft development tools. Visual Studio 2010 Professional has been engineered to support the development of applications for Windows, the Web, and Office.

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Enhanced User Experience

Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 delivers a modern, enhanced user experience that makes understanding the current context more natural.

• Clear UI Organization
• Reduced clutter and complexity
• Improved editor
• Better support for floating documents and windows
• Enhanced document targeting
• Focused animations for action feedback

Parallel Programming

Parallel programming is simplified, so both native- and managed-code developers can productively build innovative applications.

• IDE support for parallel programming
• Native C++ libraries that use lambda functions and align well with STL
• Parallel Extensions to the .NET Framework offers support for imperative data and task parallelism, declarative data parallelism, and more
• Resource management of the multicore hardware and task scheduling enabled by Concurrency Runtime
• Parallel debugging windows and profiling views

Democratizing Application Lifecycle Management

Visual Studio Team System 2010 delivers new capabilities for everyone on a project, including architects, developers, project managers and testers.

• Discover existing code assets with the new Architecture Explorer
• Design and share multiple diagram types, including use case, activity and sequence diagrams
• Tooling for better documentation of test scenarios and more thorough collection of test data
• Run tests impacted by a code change with the new Test Impact View
• Gated check-in, branch visualization and build workflow allow for enhanced version control

Inspiring Developer Delight

Visual Studio has made application development more productive, efficient and flexible for both developers and companies. Visual Studio 2010 continues this legacy.

• Contextual support helps developers better understand existing code – and write new code more efficiently
• First class C++ development experience that helps developers navigate and understand complex C++ source bases
• Build new Windows® 7 applications or upgrade existing applications
• Enable Office tools to make your solutions more flexible and productive for specific needs

Web Development

With Visual Studio 2010, we're continuing our investment in great Web development tools.

• A high-performance and standards-compliant JavaScript IntelliSense® engine
• "One Click Deployment" that quickly publishes files and configuration settings from development machines to the final deployed site
• Full support for Silverlight™ for cutting-edge, rich Internet applications

Cloud Development

With Windows Azure™ Tools for Visual Studio, it's easy for developers to build, debug and deploy services and applications for Microsoft's new cloud platform.

• C# and VB Project Templates for building Cloud Services
• Tools to change the Service Role configuration
• Integrated local development via Development Fabric and Development Storage services
• Debugging Cloud Service Roles running in the Development Fabric
• Building and packaging of Cloud Service Packages
• Browsing to the Azure Services Developer Portal

More Databases

With the Visual Studio partner ecosystem, developers will now be able to work with IBM DB2 and Oracle databases in addition to Microsoft SQL Server™ databases.

IBM has committed to develop, sell and support a Database Schema Provider (DSP) to let developers working with DB2 on the Windows, Linux or Unix platforms do offline design, development, testing and change management using Visual Studio Team System 2010 Development Edition.

Quest Software have made a similar commitment develop, sell and support a DSP which will enable Oracle Developers to work with their databases just as easily.

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Visual Basic .Net Black Book

• Paperback: 472 pages
• Publisher: Coriolis Group Books; 1st edition (April 19, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1576108635
• ISBN-13: 978-1576108635

Product Description
Visual Basic .NET Core Language Little Black Book is an indispensable quick reference guide to Visual Basic .NET syntax and data organization. Readers get a guided tour with an expert programmer who concisely explains how to use the Visual Basic tools, from the Integrated Development Environment to the debugger. It helps readers master common programming tasks, such as working with databases, ASP.NET, ADO.NET, and the core Visual Basic controls. This at-your-fingertips guide focuses on core programming topics and writing code. Plus, it includes a tear-out, quick-reference card summarizing the Visual Basic .NET language.

About the Author
Steven Holzner (Cambridge, MA) is a former contributing editor for PC Magazine and has authored more than 60 books ranging in subject from assembly language to C++. His books have sold over a million copies and have been translated into 15 languages. Steven was on the faculty of Cornell University for 10 years, where he earned his Ph.D., and has also been on the faculty of his undergraduate school, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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Make GIF image

In this program at first a simple graphics object will be created and then it will be saved as gif image. First open a project as windows application, and then add a button. Form will look as follow


In code window above the class Form1 write following 2 lines to import

Imports System.Drawing
Imports System.Drawing.Imaging

Now double click the button1 and write the following code in side button1_Click sub.

Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click

Dim bm As New Bitmap(256, 256)

Dim gr As Graphics = Graphics.FromImage(bm)

gr.Clear(Color.White)

gr.FillRectangle(Brushes.Yellow, 5, 5, bm.Width - 10, bm.Height - 10)

gr.DrawLine(Pens.Green, 0, 0, bm.Width - 1, bm.Height - 1)

gr.DrawLine(Pens.Blue, bm.Width - 1, 0, 0, bm.Height - 1)

bm.Save("c:\image.gif", ImageFormat.Gif)

End Sub

The image will be saved as image.gif file in C drive, and the following image will be saved

image.gif

So lets try.

Get Current Running Process in Listbox

This program will show all the running process in a listbox.
Open project as windows application and add one listbox and one button there.
Form will look like this


Now double click the button and just copy paste or write the following code inside button1

Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click
Dim plist() As Process
Dim myprocess As System.Diagnostics.Process
plist = Process.GetProcesses
ListBox1.Items.Clear()

For Each myprocess In plist
ListBox1.Items.Add(myprocess.ProcessName)
Next
End Sub

Now Run the program and click the button1.